Abstract-With the development of rotor aerial robot, it has been widely used as a stabilized flying platform to achieve observation, communication relay and so on by equipping corresponding equipment, which are always called passive tasks. However, many applications need rotor aerial robots to possess more active capability, such as grasp, carry and assemblage. Thus, the demand for an aerial manipulation system gradually appears, and becomes a hot research issue in recent years. Aerial manipulator system, usually composed of rotor aerial robot and the manipulator, is a new type of robot system with active operating capability. Compared with the mobile manipulator based on the ground and underwater mobile robot which is now widely applied, the aerial manipulation has lager working range and better flexibility obviously. Unfortunately, the new aerial manipulation system also brings new challenges, such as strong dynamics coupling, the modeling and stabilization problem, etc. which may affect its further application. Thus, in our work, an actual physical aerial manipulator system is designed and implemented for its system and application research. Based on the system, the preliminary modeling and control was researched and also an experiment for grasping and carry application is conducted. The conclusions of these researches will help us to realize and improve the system in the future.
I. INTRODUCTIONRotor aerial robots (RAR) have played an important role in anti-terrorist, disaster assistance, reconnaissance and surveillance for civil and military applications during past decades. They have lots of distinctive features, including low altitude flight and stable hover which are the basis of the above applications. Generally, the applications of RAR focused on some passive tasks like information collection, communication relay, etc. With the task and environment getting more and more complex, many applications need RAR to possess more active capabilities such as grasp, carry and assemblage. Especially, traditional mobile manipulators composed of manipulator and ground, underwater even space robots have been verified and successfully used in many applications. Inspired by this, rotor aerial manipulator system (RAMS) composed of a RAR and a manipulator becomes a research trend that has recently received great attention. Obviously, this combination will greatly increase